Attendance discussion

[Schumi]

bar Shels the 3 other Dublin clubs are having awful seasons.

Shels too by recent standards.

Agree with the rest. Even if our crowds are marginally down, the memories of freezing Bray-like conditions from winter seasons are enough to keep the season as it is.

[CollegeTillIDie]

CTID you are really gonna have to let this go. Summer soccer has NOT failed all the Dublin clubs. Where is the evidence? As was pointed out elsewhere bar Shels the 3 other Dublin clubs are having awful seasons.

I go to all Rovers games home and away and granted while there has not been a huge increase there has not been a decrease either in attendances.

I would equate anyone who wants to go back to the bad old days as being equal to our old board. Heads in the sand living in a dream world.

Do you really want to go back to going to games in the winter with all that entails? The mind numbing cold, ****ing rain, games called off all over the place.

Do you really want to go back to Irish sides getting hammered in the qualifying stages of European competitions?

We give the league administrators dogs abuse and deservedly so but their decision to move to summer football was the best thing ever to happen the league. We need to move on and keep improving with better facililties, better tv coverage, better marketing and with that the attendances will increase.


KOH

You can still get p***ed on in the height of summer here. Where this myth about good weather in Ireland came from I don't know!
As regards performances in Europe Longford still got hammered this year didn't they?

[Student Mullet]

You can still get p***ed on in the height of summer here. Where this myth about good weather in Ireland came from I don't know!
As regards performances in Europe Longford still got hammered this year didn't they?

You need to take averages and probability into account. You are less likely to get rained on in summer (and when you do it's still warmer). Longford were less likely to get hammered (which makes their hammering that much worse).

Attendances are about the same. You're splitting hairs arguing over numbers of Dublin clubs etc...

[CollegeTillIDie]

You need to take averages and probability into account. You are less likely to get rained on in summer (and when you do it's still warmer). Longford were less likely to get hammered (which makes their hammering that much worse).

Attendances are about the same. You're splitting hairs arguing over numbers of Dublin clubs etc...

If all the stadia in this country were all seater and all roofed over, some wusses would still make excuses for not attending EL games. Basically the idea that Ireland is a great nation of real football supporters is a myth. The relative lack of support that teams get here particularly in the First Division bears that out.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Shels too by recent standards.

Agree with the rest. Even if our crowds are marginally down, the memories of freezing Bray-like conditions from winter seasons are enough to keep the season as it is.

Schumi

The Carlisle is freezing even when the rest of the country is enjoying a heatwave, another place you can freeze is the Jodi Stand in Dalyer.

[NY Hoop]

Schumi

The Carlisle is freezing even when the rest of the country is enjoying a heatwave, another place you can freeze is the Jodi Stand in Dalyer.

??? We were there in July and it was a lovely day. Is there a freezer you inhabit in the ground?

Agree with your statement about this nations football "supporters". That goes back to there being no football culture here. Majority of people go to pubs to watch games but for the people who do go to the games week in week out summer soccer is the only answer. Last few summers have been very warm as well BTW!

KOH

[Schumi]

The Carlisle is freezing even when the rest of the country is enjoying a heatwave, another place you can freeze is the Jodi Stand in Dalyer.

My point was that I remember games in Belfield (one in particular v Monaghan) when it was like Bray on a bad day. Since the move to summer(-ish!) season, there hasn't been a game like that.

[Bald Student]

The Carlisle is freezing even when the rest of the country is enjoying a heatwave, another place you can freeze is the Jodi Stand in Dalyer.

CTID,
No one is denying that the weather is sometimes cold. The point is that the winter is colder than the summer.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Think he got ya on that one!!!

As we still play matches in March and November no he didn't

[NY Hoop]

As we still play matches in March and November no he didn't

Get over it please. Though matches should'nt be played in November if they started the season first week of March.


KOH

[pineapple stu]

As we still play matches in March and November no he didn't

As we don't now play matches in December, January and February - the coldest months of the year - yes, he did.

The only bad thing about summer soccer is that games in the bright sunlight just aren't the same as under floodlights.

[CollegeTillIDie]

As we don't now play matches in December, January and February - the coldest months of the year - yes, he did.

The only bad thing about summer soccer is that games in the bright sunlight just aren't the same as under floodlights.

You can't have it both ways pineapple stu and NY Hoop.
What with our tropical temperatures in the first week of March

March is often very very cold especially when the floodlights are on

[Bald Student]

March can be cold wheather we play summer soccer or winter soccer.

[CollegeTillIDie]

March can be cold wheather we play summer soccer or winter soccer.

At last well said! The way some posters in this thread have been going on you would swear that you could swan around in T-shirt and shorts every March in Ireland .... and I am sure you would also agree that cold weather also applies to November!

[NY Hoop]

Am not having it both ways and you're missing the point. You have to acknowledge that in general the weather in March is going to be better than in December.

I notice you havent answered my question re going back to the old days of hammerings in Europe........

Granted there should'nt be games in November but that is the fault of the league.

KOH